Improvement in apparatus for painting broom-handles



l. RIF. Apparatus for Pinti ng Broom-Handles. l No, 146,204, K l Patented Jap. (l, 1824.

0F Ro o UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

JOHN REIF, OF KOSSUTH, VVISOONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR PAINTING BROOM-HANDLES.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 146,204, dated January 6,1871; application filed March 7, 1873. I

. I do hereby declare that the following is afull,

clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specication.

ratus for painting or ornamenting broom-handles by means of bands or stripes 5 and consists in a series of strings or cords so arranged upon a .frame that paint may be applied to them, and thus transferred to the broom-han` dles when the saine are subsequently rolled over them. I.

Cylindrical forms other than broom-handles may be thus striped or ornamented with bands, Src.; and I do not, therefore, restrict the use of the apparatus to a special class of articles.

The drawing represents a plan view of my apparatus.

'.Eo form it, I provide a rectangular plate or base, A, with a raised edge or border, A', in which pins or pegs C O and F F are driven, as shown, the same being located on opposite sides of the plate, and near the corners thereof. The pins C C are connected by strings or cords B, arranged parallel to each other and in two sets or divisions, crossing each other diagonally in the center of plate A.. v The opposite pins F are similarly connected by strings `or cords D, which, in place of being diagonal, A

run parallel to the adjacent border A.

It is evident that if any suitable adhesive coloring-substance be applied to the strings B and D, by means of a'brnsh or other medium, and a broom-handle, E, be rolled across or over them, the same will be striped or ornamented correspondingly to the position and arrangement of the strings.

To apply a series of heavy colored bands around the middle portion of the handle E, I My invention is an improvement in appa.

arrange a separate frame or device, G, which is formed of a series of short strings or thinedged bars arranged for the application of paint in the manner before described. The frame G is attached to the border A" by means of pins, so as to allow it to be readily detached when it is required to use one of a different pattern.

The strings B and D may be combined in pairs to form heavier andbroader bands, or arranged at various distances apart, Sac., to vary the ornamentation of the handles.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The apparatus formed of a plate or base, A,

having a raised border,"A, to which are attached a frame, G, and a series of strings or cords attached to pins C and F, and crossing each other, in the manner specified.

Dated at Manitowoc this 27th day of February, 1878.

JOHN REIF.

"Witnesses:

JN0. F. ZINNs, WILLIAM BACH. 

